Event Details

Cambridge University Botanic Garden, established in 1846, will be hosting the 2018 European user conference. On Friday May 18, we will start in the early morning with optional trainings. You can chose to attend the “Introductory IrisBG training” or the “Advanced IrisBG training”, according to your level of experience. Paul Smith, Secretary General of BGCI, will kick off the conference with a key note speech on “Why botanic gardens need to share their collections and data with broader society”. Next, participants will explore the potential of IrisBG through exciting presentations and workshops by users and developers of the software.

Sharing User Experiences

Following up the success of the past conferences, the focus remains on Sharing User Experiences. The programme is supplemented with a session covering news and updates from the IrisBG Team.

The programme contains as many presentations as possible from the user community. We would like to thank all speakers for their contributions. The call for papers is closed.

Agenda

Pre-conference suggestion for Thursday, May 17th 2018

The PlantNetwork Plant Records Training Day is taking place on Thursday, preceding the IrisBG User Conference. You are welcome to join the members of the Plant Network at the garden tour on Thursday 17 May at Brookside public gate at 15.30 (starting time changed) and the dinner at 18h30 at the local pub ‘The Eagle’, Cambridge.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden cordially invites you to visit its annual Festival of plants, a day dedicated to bringing plants into focus. Have a look at last year’s programme here for an impression.

Accommodation

Cambridge has a large amount of good hotels to choose from. It takes roughly 10 minutes to walk from Cambridge Station to the garden.

Fee and Registration

Conference fee (Friday): 30£ per delegate
Plant Network dinner on Thursday and IrisBG conference dinner on Friday: to be paid individually at the restaurant.

For registration, please fill in the form at the bottom of this page before April 15. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact Margherita Tinti.

Thank you

We would like to thank Cambridge University Botanic Garden for hosting this event. In particular we would like to thank Pete Atkinson at Cambridge University Botanic Garden and Reinout Havinga at Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam for organizing the conference together with us.

2017 Conference

Registration form

Bookings are no longer available for this event.

Margherita Tinti

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